Antonio Macchi <antonio_mac...@alice.it> writes:

> it sounds strange, beacuse
>
> $ find . -print0 | while read -d $'\x00'; do touch "$REPLY"; done
>
> works fine.

Your "read -d $'\x00'" is exactly equivalent to "read -d ''".
(You should use read -r -d '' to get really unmangled input.)

> but if I try to "output" $'\x00', I can't.

$ printf "\x00\n" | cat -A
^@

Andreas.

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